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La littérature de langue bretonne de l’entre-deux-guerres
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2018 The Breton literature of the interwar period became both a real and radical rejection of the literary works of previous generations. The modernity of the nationalist Breton authors was taking shape through the kitschisation of the typical and folkloric ...
Nelly Blanchard
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Multilingual gendered identities: female undergraduate students in London talk about heritage languages [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper I explore how a group of female university students, mostly British Asian and in their late teens and early twenties, perform femininities in talk about heritage languages.
Anderson B. +27 more
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Failure in Motion: A Framework for Capability Erosion and Institutional Dysfunction
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the literature on capability erosion and institutional dysfunction (ID), this study develops a conceptual framework that sheds new light on how the interaction between capability erosion and ID creates conditions for business failure across borders. By articulating two dimensions of heterogeneous capability and resource erosion (i.e.
Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah +1 more
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 1985 Similarities are often evoked between Breton and Arabic, perhaps because of a high frequency of a phoneme /h/ and a combinatorial variant /x/ in Breton, with regard to Arabic /h, ĥ, x/ not to mention /ä, g̈/; then a tonic accent that is often strong in ...
Steve Hewitt
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Les nouveaux sondages sur la pratique du breton et celle de l’occitan en Aquitaine
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2010 Two surveys were carried out a few months apart, one on the practice of the Breton language in Brittany and on the representations linked to it at the end of 2007, the other on the practice of the Occitan language in Aquitaine in November 2008.
Fañch Broudic
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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La Bretagne LinguistiqueA great deal of attention is paid to the positioning and knowledge of learners' level of mastery of the Breton language, but this is not accompanied by consideration of the materials and tools used to assess language skills. What texts are used in Breton
Fabrice David
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Devoir et nécessité : à quoi sert le breton à ceux qui le parlent ?
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2016 Although Breton is today only known, actively or passively, by a diminishing group of older adults living in rural areas, it is being taught in both the private and public sectors to French-speaking children by Neo-Breton-speaking teachers under the ...
Yves Le Berre, Jean Le Dû
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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